deputize

verb deputize

• authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
• consign — To consign something or someone to a place where they will be forgotten about, or to an unpleasant situation or place, means to put them there.
• commission — If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
• delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.